Shoe



July 20 1926.

J. A. KELLY I -I!'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllflI/lldlidrlIll/111411141 A TTORNEY Patented July 20, 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. KELLY,'OF BROOKLYN, YORK.

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Application filed September a, 1920. Serial No, 409,226;

This invention is a new article of footwear, the samebpi'ng the product of a new and useful process of making shoes constituting the subject matter of a separate ,5 application Serial No. 409,225 for a patent filed by me on September 9, 1920, although it is to be distinctly understood that the new article may be produced by processes other than the particular or, precise mode to of procedure disclosed in said copending app 'cation.

According to this invention a stay com posed of relatively narrow material is attached adjacent one edge thereof to an ups per on a line adjacent the inner margin of said upper, and said stay is also attached 'with the upper to an outsole,'the said two lines of attachment constituting permanent means for the union of the components of no the article, and said stay afi'ording a secure hold for the seam preferably used as the means for securin' the outsole to the upper and the stay, w ereby the stay acts to reinforce the upper so as to preclude the at seam from pulling through said upper during the service of the shoe, particularly should the upper be composed of relatively thin or light weight material.

The resulting article is a single sole shoe w of a flexible nature characterized by the presence of two approximately parallel lines of fastenings for the components of the ,7 shoe, one of which lines of permanent fast- -egs unites the upper and the stay directly, whereas the other permanent line of fastenings unites the stay, upper and outsolein such a manner as to produce what ma be said toconstitute a reinforced seam by'w ich permanency is attained in the union of the tidy @U'tSOllQ to the upper owing to the pressure of the stay provided in t e inner surface of said upper for the express pur ose of aflording a secure hold for the outso e seam.

tllther features and advantages of the inan vention will appear from the following "description taken in connection with the drawin s, wherein rgui'e 1 is'a plan View of a temporary insole with a stay temporarily attached to thereto.

v Fi re 2' is a plan view". of the upper in laste relation to a temporary insole and a permanent shank piece, said view being partly broken away to" illustrate the stay and said view illustrating a partial view of the outsole and illustratmg also the seam and the stapling by which said outsole is united to the upper,the stay and the shank piece.

Figure Bis a cross section on the line 3-3 of Figure 2 showing the stapling of the upper to the stay and they shank piece without attaching the upper directly to the temporary insole. I A

Figure 4 is a cross section through the upppr and the shank piece on the line 4-4; of igure 2.

Figure 5 is a cross section on the line 5-5 of Figure 2 illustrating the outsole and the dislodgment of the temporary insole.

Figure 6 is a cross section through the shank of the shoe.

Figure 7 is a cross section of another embodiment wherein the staples are concealed by a component of the stay in the fore part of the shoe.

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F the outsole.

The stay is composed of a relatively thin and narrow piece of material, such as leather, fabric or other material suitable for the urpose. I

The outsole F is shown as a single iece of material providedon that face thereo adapt ed in the completed article to be concealed hit by the upper, i. e., the inner face, with a c a nnel f, said channel being cut our otherwise produced in the marginal portion of the outsole. As disclosed in my copending application, the material excised from the outsole to produce the channel may be and preferably isutilized for the production of the stay A.

The shank piece used is or may be of the form shown in Figures 4 and 6, the same being channeled at 0 and producing a 11p 0.

As shown in Figure 5, the marginal portion of the upper lies in overlapping relationto the outsole, the said marginal upper portion being received within the channel f of the outsole. The stay' A is in lapping relation to the inner marginof the upper, and thismarginal portion of said upper is attached to the stay and to the shank piece by permanent fastenings, such as tacks, a seam, or by cement, the same beingr shown herein as staples E which are free om at lllll tachment, either directly or indirectly, to the temporary insole B. The staples E pass through the up er beginning at the shank piece and exten ing thence along the stay on one side of the shoe, around the toe, and thence extending along the other side of the. shoe so as to attach the u per to the stay and the shank iece along hoth sides of the shoe and around the toe portion thereof, see full and dotted lines in Figure 2. At the shoe shank, the staples pass through the upper and-lip a of the shank piece, whereas at the fore art of the shoe the staples pass through t e upper and the stay at the free inner marginal portion thereof.

After lastin the upper and attaching it to the stay and the-shank piece, the outsole F is assembled and attached, the preferred mode of attachment being by the aid of a seam 7 which passes throu h the outsole, the upper and the stay at t e fore part of the shoe and through the upper, the outsole and the shank piece at the shank portion of thenslhoe, all as clearly shown.

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assembled with re hug the stay relatively to the last and to theupper, and for retaining'the stay in position dur' g the steps of lasting the upper and of stapling the up er to the stay and the shank piece; but this insole does not constitute an inte al member of the finishedshoe, but on this contrary said insole is dislodged or withdrawn from the upper.

Under such circumstances, the stay is de tachably connected by any desired means to the temporary insole, as e. stitchin or stapling, the but pre erably the Insole separably connected by a b, the same the stay so as to leave free andunattached the two marginal portions of the stay, see Figures 1 and 3 and the right hand portion of Figure 5.

The mode of producing the shoe will appear fully from the com anion application to which reference has 11 made, but itmay be recited briefly as follows: The shank piece 'C, and the temporary insole B with the attached stay A, are assembled relatively to a last D, and the upperis belng temporarily fastened to the insole by lasting tacks. The upper is now attached by staples E to the lip a) of shank piece G and to the inner marginal portion of stay A, after which the excess material of the upper is cut or trimmed on a line parallel to and adjacent the edge of the stay and the line of the staples E, and thereafter the trimmed orcut portion of the upper and the tacks are removed. An outsole is now to the upper and e several parts are atgJby cementing, stay to the insole, and'the stay are chain stitch'seam a piece, and t temporary insole B is used in my f passing through the insole and F layer A, the latter layer'A' being then lasted, f

tached hy stitching, the seam f a through the outsole, the upper, the stay an the shank piece so that the line of stitc is approximately parallel to the line o" stapling.

The temporary insole is now withdrawn from the upper, prior to which the chain stitch seam b is pulled out in order to detach the temporary insole from the stay; but while the dislodgment of said insole has the efl'ectof removing the tacks with the trimmed upper material from the up er, such removal of the insole has no e 'ect upon the stay or the shank piece which remain permanent parts of the shoe, the said stay being attached directly to the upper by the staples and being attached also to the upper and the outsole by the seam f.

In this connection it is desired to call attention to the fact that the seam 7 passes directly through the stay and on a line exteriorly to the staples E, so that the stay is permanently attached to the upper and the stay afi'ords added material to the uper or securely holding the stitches by n oh the outsole is attached to said u per, as a result of which added material t e stitches cannot pull through the upper, which is a feature of material advantage in case the upper is composed of relatively thin or light weight material.

As appears by reference to Figures 3 and 5, the stay is ositioned on the inside of the outsole ans nel of said outsole, as a result of which the ine of fine wire staples E are on the inner surface of the shoe. It may be, and sometimes is, desirable to cover the staples, in which casethe stay is composed of two lzayers of matelgal A A, shown igure said a ers ei in su o relation. The tw layers b f mater zl composing the stay are fastenedby the seam f to the upper and to the outsole, but only one layer (la er A) is stapled to the upper, said stap as E passing through the upper and through layer A to the-exclusion at" gapingrelation to the staples y covering said staples and same so that the inner sur-- ace of the shoe is smooth and unhrok, the layer A of stay material; recluding the staples from access to the diet when the shoe is in use.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a shoe, an upper, a stay in lapping relation to a margin of said upper, an outsole, and two separate lines of fastenin one of which unites one edge ortion of ti stay to the upper and the ot er of which unites the opposite edge portion of the stay tioned in overla E and effectual concealing the covers that part of the. margin of the upper lying within the chan- I exposed till tlll

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to the upper and the outsole, said stay having one edge portion thereof attached fixedly and directly to the upper on a line inwardly of one row of fastenings which unite upper and outsole. I

2. In a shoe, an upper, an outsole, a stay composed of a strip of narrow material positioned in lapping relation to a margin of the upper, staples attaching the inner edge portion of said stay directly to the margin of saidupper, and a seam uniting the opposite edge portion of the stay to the up er and the outsole, said sta having one ge portion thereof attached xedly and directly to the upper on a line inwardly of the seam between upper and outsole.

3. In a shoe, a sole provided in the inner face thereof with a channel, a shank piece provided in the inner face thereof with a channel extending toward the outer margin so as to produce a lip, a stay composed of narrow material separate from the sole and positioned to occupy the channel of said sole, an upper the marginal portion of which is in lapping relation to the sta and to the lip'of the shank piece, a row 0 fasteners attaching the marginal portion of the upper to the inner edge of the stay and to the ii of the .shank piece, and a seam separate om the row of fasteners and uniting the sole and the upper to the outer margin of the stay and to the lip of the shank piece. I

4. In a ,shoe, an outsole provided on its inner face with a channel at the margin thereof, an upper, a stay in lapping relation to said upper, said stay and the upper margin occupying said channel of the outsole,

means ,for directly and fixedly attaching the inner edge portion of said stay to the upper,

and a seam uniting the outer edge portion of to the stay to the upper and the outsole.

5. In a shoe, an upper, a sole, a stay composed of narrow layers of material superposed one upon the other and one of which layers-is in contact with the upper adjacent the line of contact of said upper with the sole, means for fastening one layer of said stay material directly to. the upper, and means uniting the sole to the upper and securing both layers of the stay material to said upper.

6. In a shoe, an upper, a sole, a stay composed of superposed layers of material, staples attaching one layer oi the stay material to the upper, and a seam uniting both layers of the stay material to the upper and also attaching the sole to said upper, one of said layers covering the line of said staples.

7. In a shoe, an outsole provided on its inner face with a channel, an upper, a stay composed of a strip of narrow material positioned in lapping relation to a marginal portion of the upper and in substantially flush relation to the inner face of the outsole, said stay and the upper margin being received within the channel of said outsole, a row of permanent fasteners attaching the upper margin to the stay adjacent the inner edge thereof, and a seam passing through the upper and the otherwise unattached edge portion of the stay for the attachment of the outsole, said stay and the seam constituting the sole means for the permanent union 1 of the upper to the outsole.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name hereto this 2nd day of September, 1920.

JOHN A. KELLY.- 

